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Sailing my life away, part 20

3rd August 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

COMMENTS I visited Cambridge and Ely at the start of my summer break. Here are a couple of pics taken there. I drafted parts 18,19 and 20 of these tales before leaving home to get [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 19

20th July 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 17 There were some great comments on Part 17 so thanks to every-one for that. There are two in particular and one question I’d like to pick out and reproduce. I [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 18

6th July 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

A SUMMER BREAK I am now away from home for about six weeks and have suspended for this issue a continuation of the story of Alchemi’s 1997 Voyage covering the leg from Oslo to Bergen. [more…]

PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life. Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 16

8th June 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

REFLECTIONS ON PIRACY I appreciated the warm reception given to Part 15 from several people and thank them all for reading and commenting on it. I especially wish good fortune and happy sailing to [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 15

25th May 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

COMMENT ON THE COMMENTS ON PART 14 A few readers said they appreciated my responses to comments on Part 13 so I do the same again for Part 14. Bobo provided a link for Foxoles [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 14

11th May 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 13 Once again I thank those who commented on Part 13 and particularly the three or four who correctly pointed out my mistake in inverting the description of the speed [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 13

27th April 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

A METEOROLOGICAL DIGRESSION Life on a small yacht is lived much closer to nature than most people in developed countries usually experience. That is particularly true about weather in its many forms and I’d like [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 12

13th April 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

PREFACE REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM Oh dear! 12 April 2021 is the first day we’ve been let out of our cages and I’m frightened. The world outside seems a big, scary and uninteresting place – please [more…]

Going Postal with Question Time

25th June 2020 0

Graphic EJ – Updated by Sam. Fiona Bruce presents another hour of left-wing screeching. On the panel are: Chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay, shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding Jess Phillips, entrepreneur [more...]
Statist Overreach – The Curse of Big Government

12th April 2021 0

Whether it’s your local Council, blocking suburban roads with impassable barricades, feigning concern for neighbourhood tranquillity; or imposition by central government of the most intrusive behavioural prohibitions outside of war – this vile syndrome of [more...]
US2020 Presidential Election

2nd November 2020 0

“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Here are some basics relating to the forthcoming US elections on Tuesday the 3rd of November 2020. Presidential race: Donald Trump / Mike Pence (incumbent President/Vice President) standing [more...]
Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth

23rd June 2021 0

Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast. There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more...]
Larry’s Diary Week Forty Nine

12th July 2020 0

Monday Another week and another chance for me to comment on some of the happenings in Westminster and around the world. I did see one thing that made me purr over the weekend. It was [more...]